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Private Professional Crowds Enable Enterprises to Increase Productivity,
Maximize Workforce Elasticity and Reduce Costs
WALTHAM, Mass.,  Feb. 20, 2013  /PRNewswire/ -- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.,
(Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced a suite of professional  crowdsourcing offerings 
that enable enterprises to increase productivity, maximize workforce elasticity
and reduce costs through a highly flexible workforce model. The new offerings,
which include  data management  as well as  in-country testing,  user generated
content translation  and  custom crowd solutions, extend Lionbridge's proven
15-year track record of providing professional, crowd-enabled solutions for
hundreds of the world's leading brands.  To view a video detailing these new
solutions and the benefits to enterprises please visit  this link.

Through its dedicated Enterprise Crowdsourcing (ECS) practice, Lionbridge is
introducing these solutions to bring new value to large enterprises, including
the ability to:

* Maximize Scalability  by providing immediate access to pre-qualified private
crowds of more than 100,000 professionals across 110 countries, from globally
broad communities to geographically narrow teams.  
* Enhance Productivity  by assembling the right combination of cost, capability
and skill on demand for any project. As a result, enterprises can accelerate
cycle time to complete tasks by up to 200 percent.  
* Optimize workforce flexibility  with a fully elastic and highly scalable model
to accommodate work fluctuations and reduce costs.  
* Minimize costs  by reducing labor spend by an average of 30 percent.  
* Ensure security  by using a proven, secure enterprise task management platform
to complete business projects.  
* Deliver quality  and continuous quality improvement through a proven Quality
Control and Audit Framework.

In a recent  webinar  on crowdsourcing,  Lee Irwin, Market Readiness Team
Leader, at  Nokia  Entertainment worked directly with Lionbridge on a
crowdsourcing solution for in country testing.  According to Irwin, "Lionbridge
tested the end-user experience of our products and services across more than 25
global locales. Using Lionbridge's in-country management team and its crowd of
professionals, we successfully tested our products across applications and
payment types. This demonstrates the depth and scale of the Lionbridge
crowdsourcing solution."

Through its secure, cloud-based task management platform and its pre-qualified
crowd of more than 100,000 skilled professionals, Lionbridge ECS now offers the
following Enterprise Crowdsourcing solutions specifically designed to fit
enterprise needs:

* Data Management Solutions  -  These solutions apply human intelligence to data
management tasks while minimizing labor costs for organizations, making clients
leaner, more flexible and more competitive. Specific offerings within Lionbridge
ECS' Data Management Solution include:

* DataCapture-  A data entry solution that is 99.9 percent accurate and reduces
data entry costs by as much as 40 percent. Clients gain instant access to a
24x7, highly scalable team of remote data conversion specialists using a system
designed to ensure 100 percent security.  
* Data Enrichment -  This solution specializes in expanding clients' data sets
with new content globally, adding new information, meta data tags, attributes
and annotations that improve data assets.  
* Big Data Cleansing, Classification and Normalization -  Lionbridge ECS
aggregates all structured and unstructured data into the same format to enable
workers to perform Big Data analytics. This includes everything from
transcribing audio files to digitizing images to adding index tags to data and
more to ensure all information is normalized and analytics ready.

* Testing Solutions  -  Lionbridge ECS' Testing solution is designed to help
product managers with web and mobile, device, user experience and functional
testing needs to simplify and speed-up the testing process. It leverages global
capabilities to source crowds capable of testing everything from hot spots to
transactions to geolocation accuracy, all while providing organizations with
consistent reporting and immediate response times.  
* Translation for User-Generated Content  -  Lionbridge ECS' Translation
solution aggregates, evaluates and translates user generated content for a
global audience, giving marketers a cost-effective way to connect with customers
across the globe and drive worldwide revenue. By utilizing in-country,
bi-lingual content specialists rather than professional translators, Lionbridge
ECS provides a cost-effective solution for user generated content such as user
reviews, product reviews and social media, while ensuring the content is
locally-relevant in any geography.  
* Custom Crowd Solutions  -  Lionbridge ECS can customize a Crowdsourcing
solution that ensures clients have a highly qualified crowd on demand only when
they have work to accomplish. These workers are screened to fit, highly
educated, multi-lingual and are sourced from more than 100 countries around the
globe and leverage a secure proprietary, web-based platform which distributes
the work, balances workload and ensures quality.

As detailed in Lionbridge's recent  white paper  on crowdsourcing, growth in the
global Enterprise Crowdsourcing market is accelerating. According to
Massolution, the research arm of  crowdsourcing.org, in 2011 the growth rate of
the enterprise crowdsourcing market was 75 percent, exceeding 2010's market
growth of 53 percent.  

"Traditional outsourcing models are unable to scale up and down to accommodate
fluctuations in workloads and today's business needs.  At Lionbridge ECS, we are
leading the charge of the next generation of outsourcing with a new elastic
model that enables enterprises to increase productivity while reducing business
costs.  As a result, our professional crowdsourcing offerings are able to meet
all of the changing demands of the modern enterprise," said  Martha Crow, Senior
Vice President, Global Enterprise Solutions at Lionbridge. "With the combination
of our proven customer success and the global Lionbridge name, we are able to
provide our clients with the most comprehensive and best-in-class Enterprise
Crowdsourcing solutions available today."  

About Lionbridge Enterprise Crowdsourcing  
Lionbridge Enterprise Crowdsourcing (ECS)  is a  $150 million  practice of 
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. Lionbridge's ECS division is dedicated to leading
the next generation of outsourcing by leveraging its secure, enterprise-scale
crowdsourcing model to help enterprises increase productivity, maximize
workforce elasticity and reduce workforce costs. In 2012, Lionbridge's ECS
division achieved over  $150 million  in revenues, serving clients across a
range of industries. Its proprietary cloud-based technology platform provides an
innovative and secure solution to manage the transformative workflows to quickly
drive high-quality task results. This platform, combined with Lionbridge ECS's
global crowd of more than 100,000 educated, pre-qualified professionals,
provides a robust crowdsourcing solution that offers optimal results for any
business project. For more information, please visit  www.thesmartcrowd.com.  

About Lionbridge  
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) is a  $457 million  provider of
globalization solutions.  We provide translation, online marketing, global
content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand
consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of
the customer lifecycle.  Using our innovative cloud technology platforms and our
global crowd of more than 100,000 professionals, we enable more than 800
world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of
products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. 
Based in  Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 26 countries.
To learn more, visit  http://www.lionbridge.com.

Contact Info:  
Sara Buda
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.  
sara.buda@lionbridge.com 
+1-781-434-6190

SOURCE  Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

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